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Interference of public authority as it respects mercantile
Consumers it is most undoubtedly unfair to suffer the
Merchants of the atlantic cities who are themselves re=
lieved from the presence of the law to have that adva=
ntage of law here to compel the payment of those
Sums from our merchants which must at last be
Extracted by the unrelenting hand of the law from
that hard earned property of our farmers and mecha=
nicks. many sacrafices of property have already taken
place; at public sales ready money produces double
triple and sometimes quadruple its former value
these circumstances are calculated to carry ruin into
the habitations of a worthy portion of the communi
ty. and unless some s^peedy remedy is afforded incal=
culable calamity will be inflicted on those peo=
ple who have been in the habit of looking to
your Excellency for protection in the day of vicis
situdes and hour of danger; they are confident
that you fe^el their distress and will extend all the
releif in your power; they know that any oppressive
system which is calculated to add misery to the
distressed - to distress the weak and to elevate the
strong to make the poor poorer and the rich richer
will meet with your entire disapprobation:

Therefore for these and the aforementioned reasons
We the Subscribers do respectfully request that you
will call a session of the general assembly as spee=
dily as may be consistent with your opinion of
the urgency of the case to take into their wise consi=
deration these important subjects of public compla=
int and to devise such remedy as in their wisdom
they made deem expedient July 5^th 1808

State of Tennessee
Montgomery County Port Royal